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What’s Wrong with the Internet and How We Can Fix It: John Day Interview
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 11y ago> I wish I had a dollar for every time someone has said (in effect), “gosh, you can’t replace the whole Internet.” There must be something in the water these days. They told us that we would never replace the phone company, but it didn’t stop us and we did. Well, lets get started then. Edit: Although, I still admire human ability to adapt to a familiar kludge. It would be fun to see how long we can survive with this broken internet.
- justizin 11y ago> Well, lets get started then. Have you adopted IPv6, yet? ;) Clearly, we wouldn't rebuild an IPv4 internet.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 11y agoHe said IPv6 solves a non-issue. I'm not sure I get it though.
- 4a0uuslhqsrf 11y agoDay seems to be complaining that the networks aren't centralized enough with less-than perfectly hierarchical addresses (for efficiency of routing) and without lower level QoS levers. Neither of these things are good IMHO, but he certainly seems to think so.
- daveloyall 11y ago> Engineers working on TCP decided that a 3-way exchange of messages (3-way handshake) could be used at the beginning of a connection. This is what is currently taught in all of the textbooks. However, in 1978 Richard Watson made a startling discovery: the message exchange was not what achieved the synchronization. It was explicitly bounding three timers. The messages are basically irrelevant to the problem. This: https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien193.pdf https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien193.pdf